THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 80TH,
EL Oriente Cigar Factory Is American Concern
Governor-General of Philippines Issues Important
Announcement
Walter E. Olsen & Co., Buy Largest Cigar Factory in Manila from Alien Property Custodian U.S.
The world famous El Orients Cigar Factory of Manila, Philippine Islands has passed into American hands. The Alion Property Custodian announces its sale to Waiter E. Olsen and
Company. El Oriente Cigar Factory has been estab well and favorably lished since 1883 and it i known here. Every detail of manufacture, from the cultivation, and care of the tobacco, to the clean and careful handling in the most modern and sanitary factories, has been
"Dear Sir
February 12, 1919,
RUSSIAN TERKOR. APPALLING STORIES
BOLSHEVIK SAVAGERY.
BLOODSHED AND RUIN.
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them were found the Lodies of a priest. sume monks, and a young girl At Blagovescensk officers and soldiers from: Torbalof's detachment were found with Granphone needles thrust under their dager nails, their eyes torn out, the In recent months more or less trustmarks of nails on their shuulders where worthy reports have been published from shoulder straps had been worn. Their time to time on the horrors of Bolshevik bodies had become like frozen statues, misrule and the universal ruin it has and were hideous to look upon. These bought upon Russia. More precise and
men had been killed by Bolsheviks at detailed information as to the meaning Metzanovays, and taken thene to Blago and the fruits of the few terror are now veschensk.
Following is text of document belong. available in # collection of offein
ing to Red Commissary captured at other, reports, issued by the the front and quated in the Ten
Herewith 1 certify that the Foreign Office. It is a truly appalling Press:
Unbelievable decls of fiendishbearer, comrade Evdomikof, is allowed the right of acquiring a girl for himself
40d
story.
"At the request of Walter E. Olsen Com:"/cruelty are set down on page after page | anil no one may oppose this in any way.
pany, I beg to advise you that the El Oriente Cigar Factory and business as a going concern was sold by me, as representative of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States, at public sale to the Walter Olsen Company, the highest bidder there- for. The sale has been
carefully studied with the result that the Washington othee of the othe
products, of the factory enjoy a world wide enviable reputation.
The policy of the owners will be to main tain the
une high standard of quality that hay nale El Oriente cigas a by-word for good smokes throughout this country. The warehouses of the company contain more than three million pesos worth of tobacco, carefully selected and of the highest quality, This
in itself -sures smokers of a mild that from a a point of quality uniform blend, and arouss is u-xcelled.
де
and the
Olsen Company has paid the purchase price,
of, and operating,
The
and is now 122 Os. The Olsen Com- the factory and pany is a corporation organised under the fawx of the Philippine Islands and all of its stockholders are American citizens enemy interests should, therefore, be con- as eliminated and the business. sidered entitled to the asme consideration at other American business.
Yours very truly,
DOUGLAS MOFFAT, Managing Director for the Philippine Islanda.
(Sgd.)
The Governor-General of the Pri Islands has sanction the issuance of the following statement, in order that the smok- ing public of China may be put in possession The Governor General, of the facts concerning the Oriente Cigar Factory: Office of the Governor.General of The Philippine Islands
Manila Feb. le, 1910.
To whom it may concern ;
"The Governor-General of the Philippine Islands has received the following explanatory letter from Mr. Douglas 31
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'I hereby certify to the authenticity of the
et the document, whose tale of unbridled savagery and bloodshed it would be dif Beult to parallel from the history of any age or country.
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From the mass of first-hand testimony much of it supplied by British subjects who were themselves victims, in greater e less degree of the Bolshevik scourge it is possible for the moment only to quote brief extructs. The following. picked almost at random from the White Paper, are typical:
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out
He is invested with full power which 1 certify."
BRITISH SUBJECTS URDEAL.
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in the panic which seized the Bolsheviks) after the attempt to assassinate Lenin, wholesale arrests were made of British and other Allied subjects, and it unly by the most xtranous exertions of neatral diplomatists that some of them were saved from death. · They were thrown into prison, where they were kept without food and subjected to the worst indignities. Their sufferings are described in a letter which they suvesided in sending to the Netherlands Minister at Petrograd, who did all in his power to supply them with food and other pecessaries. In the letter they stated i
We were never told why we were arrested, and from the first all requests, etc., to see you have been conteraptuously and rudely relased. We reached Gorck havaya at six p.m. on Saturday, and; atter questioning of an aimless sort, we were put at eight p.m. in a room about
From a memorandum un "conditions in Moscow by a British subject, who left the city on December lat: The number of people who have been coldly done to death Moscow is enormous. Many thousands have been shot, but lately those con- demned to death were hung instead, and that in the most brutal man
They
in batches. in the early hours of the morning to a place on the outskirts of the town, stripped to their shirts and then hung one by one by being drawn up by 5ft., where there were already at the end of a rope until their feet were a few inches from the ground and then about nity arrested Russians murderers,
All bets were already occupied, and, left to die. The work was done by etc.
Shooting was. too we spent the night between the three. ald Mongolian soldiers.
"Men have chairs, the door, and walking about. By crawled away after a volley, and others morning we were all in the first stages of verminosity, very dirty, tired, and have been buried while still alive. I was hungry. The Erst feed came at ene p.., told in Stockhairs by one of the repre- small bowls of bad Esh soup, and lb. that 150 Russian officers who were taken prisoners at Pskoff by the Red Guards were given over to the Mongolian sold. iers, who sawed them in pieces."
From the British Consul at Ekaterin-
"The taher of innocent civilians brutally
dreda.
Moffat, managing director for the Philippine right, and Trade-Mar Patents, Copy- noisy and not sure enough.
Islands of the Alien Property Custodian of the United States Amerien:
"United Sta
siganture of Mr. Douglas M. Mont Manag- ing Director for the Philippine Islands of the Alien Property Custoxlian, on the original of the above-quoted letter which is on file in this office. I further certify that the records of the Division of
of the Philippine Qlean and Government show Company is a Philippine corporation duly Islands and that all of its stockholders are citizens of the United States of America. By authority of the Governor-General. JL. IRWIN, (Sgd.) Secretary to the Gov. Gen.
that
Walter E.
s of America the organised under the laws of the Philippinesentatives of the Esthoniar Government of bread. At six p. we got another Elb.
.. Alien P Sperty Custodian
Office of the Managing
Director in the Philip...
pines, Manila.
The Tabaqueria Filipina, 34, Nanking Road, Shanghai,burg, dated January 13th Fast:
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of brend. We received the same food o Monday also. On Sunday night the room was less full, and we got some sleep. Parcels arrived on Monday and eased the food situation.
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On Tuesday, at four p.m., we were including murdered in Ural towns run inte hun marched through the streets under escort Officers taken prisoners by Bol-bere. The Consul's request for a vehicle for our kit was most rudely refused. sheviks here had their shoulder straps Here we were distributed in different nailed into their shoulders, girls have been raped, some of the civilians have cells, size about 20ft by 10ft, in order
to make up the number of twenty. been found with their eyes pierced our cell are thirteen Russians, four of others without noses, whilst twenty-five whom are slowly starving to death. They shot at Perm, Bishop have had no food for three days. After priests WCre Andronick having been buried alive
we had been here thirty-three bours soup there.
came in at three am and 1b of break. We could not eat the soup; wood, teather, stones, mixed with cabbage and paper, were its main ingredients.
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"These and other barbarous punish ments, such as dipping people in rivers till they were frozen to death. Those condemned to be shot were led out several times and fired at with blank cartridges, never knowing when the real execution would take place. Many other atrocities are reported. The Bolsheviks apparently were guilty of wholesale murder in Perm, and it is certain that they had begun to
The Minister states in his covering re- operate a plan of systematic extermina- tion. On lamp ahere a building wereport that at Moscow he had repeated in- the words: Only those who fight shall terviews with Chicherin and Karahan. The whole Soviet Government has sunk cat.""
to the level of a criminal organisation. I repeatedly told Chicherin, with all the energy of which 1 in capable, that he must realise full well that Bolshevik Gov. ernment was not a match for England.. a longer wind than the England had Soviets. She would not be intimidated even if hundreds of British subjects! should be executed by order of the Bol; sheviks England would not turn one hair's breadth front her purpose. The mo
TORTURE AND MURDER.
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From an Esthonian offcial report on atrocities perpetrated by the Bolsheviks in Esthonin: All the bodies showed signs of the rage and revenge of the Bolshevisa. The victims, were all robbed of every- tibng except their 'linen, their boots also baving been taken. The Bolsheviks had shattered the skulls of thirty-three of the bodies, so that the beads hung like bits
of wood on the trunks, As well as being ment would come when the Soviet autho- shot, most of the murdered bad been rities, man by man, would have to pay pierced with bayonets, the entrails torn for all the acts of terrorism which they out, and the bones of the arm and leg committed. But in spite of the persistence broken How the victims were executed with which I drove those facts home, I by the Bolsheviks is described by one of could not obtain any definite promises these unfortunates. Proprietor A. Mun- from Chicherin but only a few evasive re- strum, who managed to save himself by aplies "and some lies." miracle:
A large mass of testimony is given n to the social and economic results of the present reign of anarchy collected from witnesses who an speak from person al experience of the Lenin-Trotsky regime... In a foreword to the White Paper it is stated that the reporta cover the whole period of Bolshevik rule down to the pre- rnt date, and have been issued in accord- ance with a decision of the War Cabinet in January last. They speak for them- selves in the picture which they present! of the principles and methods of Bolshe vik rule, the appalling incidents by which it has been accompanied, the economic consequences which have flowed from it, and the almost incalculable misery which
"On the afternoon of January 11th Elty-six of us were led to the place of execution, where the grave was already made. Half of us, including eiz women, were placed at the edge of the grave. The women were to be killed first, as their cries were so heurtrending the murderers could not listen to them any longer. One woman tried to escaped, but did not get far. They fired.a volley, and she sank to the ground wounded... Then the Bolsheviks dragged her hy the feet into the grave. Five of the murderers sprang after Her, shot at her and stamped on ber body with feet till she was silent. Then a further volley was fired at the other victims. In the same way they were it has produced."-Daily Telegraph.. thrown into the graves and done to death with butt-ends and bayonets, after which the murderers once more stamped on the bodies.
On March 4th last General Knox, the British Commander of Vladivostock, sent the following to the War Office:
An interview with an officer has ap peared in a Vladivostock, paper which
FORGED MILLIONS.
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Mr. John Pollock, writing from Hel
kives an idea of the ruin that has besingfors on March 20th, declared that he fallen Moscow. He had escaped through bad received information from a trust- the lines, and says that executions and worthy "scuree that the. Bolshevik Govara-. arrests, to say nothing of hunger and ment was despatching £35,000,000 forged cold and robbery in all its forms, are money to Germany for revolutionary part of the daily life of the city. The organization.
This is further proof that the Allied streets are £lthy and torn up, bounes are sbell-shattered and gutted by fire. Pocket victory can only be consolidated, and the micking has become fashionable, and is danger of a general European Bolshevik looked on as a harmless eccentricity confegration-averted, when Bolshevism OBeers are put on to the most menial in Russia is crushed.
Each Russian Red field division bas its forms of work, such as street cleaning, loading bricks at railway stations, and a own printing-press, and boundless na- colonel is now & night watchman. Whilst thority to issue so-called "Kerenskies" Kuksh was in Bolshevik,, occupation for £g and £4, but new, or, properly women from 10 to 50 were mobilised for speaking, forged issues of Imperial noter work, and to satisfy the needs of the with old datee and numbers, can only be printed in Petrograd and are reserved for pride-and-flover of the revolution."
At Goroblagodatsky the Red Army foreign consumption, constituting-por threw forty-four. bodies down a well. haps the chief present weapon of the.." They were discovered later, and amongst | Bolsheviks against the Allies,
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